After the marathon diplomatic day on Monday at the White House, where Donald Trump met with Volodymyr Zelensky and the most important European leaders, including those from the United Kingdom, France, and Germany, on Tuesday morning the President of the United States stated that he will not send troops to Ukraine.
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In addition to a possible meeting between Zelensky and Putin, the topic that most interested Europeans was the “security guarantees” that Russia will not invade Ukraine again or attack another country on the continent in the event of reaching a peace agreement.
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After the various interpretations following the words of leaders like Zelensky, Emmanuel Macron of France, and Friedrich Merz of Germany, Trump shared his points of view on the program “Fox & Friends” on the allied channel Fox News.
What did Trump say about security guarantees for Ukraine?
According to Donald Trump, with the military participation of European allies, “it will be enough” to provide security guarantees to Kiev, so the White House will not get involved in this aspect. “We are willing to help them with things, especially by air because no one has the type of things we have,” said the US president. When panelists asked him about US military involvement, Trump ruled it out and reaffirmed that “they have my guarantee.”
The President of the United States ruled out that it would be a direct intervention by NATO, but that some countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization could participate in security guarantees.
Hours later, at a press conference, the White House Press Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said that “the president has definitively stated that there will be no American troops on the ground.”.
Possible meeting and pressure on Ukraine
In the interview, the President of the United States once again pressured Zelensky to achieve a peace agreement in the war that began in February 2022 with Russia’s invasion, instead of questioning Vladimir Putin, whom he met with on Friday in Alaska.
Trump said that the Ukrainian president must show “flexibility” in peace negotiations. Regarding a possible territorial exchange, Trump stated that “Ukraine is going to get its life back” and also “a lot of territory”, without providing further details, even though days earlier he had assumed that Kiev would have to definitively give up the Crimean peninsula. “This is a war,” he said, and “Russia has a powerful army, whether people like it or not.”
Trump also insisted on organizing a new summit as soon as possible that brings together Zelensky and Putin, and highlighted that “they get along better than I thought.” The Republican indicated that one of the European leaders who attended the meeting at the White House suggested waiting “another month or two” before convening the summit, but he considered that proposal counterproductive. “In a couple of weeks” progress could be seen, he asserted, although he acknowledged that there is a possibility that Putin “may not want to reach an agreement.”